MVP Build
For pre-product founders who need a working product quickly.
- Design and full-stack build for web and mobile
- Launch, plus a first round of iteration from user feedback
Majestical Co. is Cory McArthur — a single product, design, and development contributor. I help early-stage founders validate ideas, structure the product process, and get something built, whether the brief is sharp or still fuzzy.
For pre-product founders who need a working product quickly.
For founders exploring new flows who want evidence before committing engineering time.
For teams without a product leader, or where the founder is the bottleneck.
Roll out AI coding tools for an engineering team and measure the gain in delivery speed.
Define roles, run technical interviews, and hire engineers who fit the stage.
A two-week review of how the team ships, with metrics and prioritized fixes.
Retainers start with a short, fixed-fee kickoff to agree on scope, then run as a two-month initial term, followed by month-to-month. Projects and focused engagements are scoped and priced up front.
One Goal Finance01
Solo Founder of Couples finance app available on iOS, Android, and web. Includes bank connections through Plaid, real-time updates, charts, reporting, analytcs, and push notifications. Sold to partners, including a white-label deployment.
onegoalfinance.com ↗
Modern Gentleman Academy02
From idea to production in 24 hours. That's right, total hours, not man hours. Domain purchased, design style picked, MVP shipped, auto-deploy set up, several iterations to improve the design, and capped off with custom social sharing.
moderngentleman.academy ↗
Our Tributes03
Technical co-founder. Designed and built the product from zero to launch, translated it into multiple languages, includes real-time updates, custom pages, user-facing analytics, and in-app support chat via intercom.
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Rebuilt the product and engineering team. Cut partner launches from a month to a few hours with a self-serve platform. Led SOC 2 compliance.
Led the design and development cycle and contributed code to the web and mobile app, then owned the roadmap — working directly with customers to understand their workflows and set priorities.
Built and launched a couples finance app on iOS, Android, and web, with bank connections through Plaid, real-time updates, and push notifications. Sold to partners, including a white-label deployment.
Designed and built the product from zero to launch, including translations into multiple languages. Iterated on features and fixes from user feedback, and managed designers and marketing contractors for the site and launch video.
Consolidated separate iOS, Android, and web codebases into one. Returned in 2024 to build a proof-of-concept workout experience for a Fortune 500 health insurer’s members in four weeks, on time and on budget.
Product leader and builder.
I love building products that combine design, engineering, and business so early-stage teams can move from idea to something people can use.
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